Commissioning and partnerships

The Commissioning and partnership team is responsible for children’s Trust arrangements, strategic commissioning and managing external commissioning partnerships; development of a coherent, one departmental approach to service commissioning, service development and redesign based on the agreed Joint Commissioning Framework.

• Commissioning strategies
• Service review and redesign
• Specification and procurement of identified services
• Contract monitoring and management / service level agreements
• Direct management of major areas of strategy and commissioning - for example, CAMHS, disabled children, teenage pregnancy, young peoples sexual health, substance misuse, parenting and youth - through joint commissioning groups
• Local Public Service Agreement commissioning and agreed external funding streams
• Advising and working with service heads to ensure appropriate commissioning processes are followed
• Management of external commissioning partnerships, particularly with the PCT and voluntary and community sector, including managing the children’s provider market
• Integrated working - embedding the common assessment framework (CAF), implementing Contact Point and developing the lead professional role

Policies and guidance

• Children and Young Peoples Plan 2009-12
• Camden Community Strategy 2007 – 2012
• Procurement Strategy 2006-2009
• download: Introduction to commissioning for the voluntary and community sector (children and families) in Camden (PDF 573KB)
• download: Joint Commissioning Strategies for Children Young People and Families Framework March 2007 (PDF 267KB)

Elsewhere on the web

• Commissioning Support Organisation
• Family and Parenting Institute
• World Class Commissioning 2009 Camden PCT  Panel Report 2009
• Department for Education

• Contact the CSF commissioning and partnerships team